Freed Convict Gets 11 Years For Violation Of Probation

NEWS IN BRIEF

April 30, 1997

TAVARES — A man convicted of sexual battery in 1983 has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for violating his probation.

Odell Coots, 32, of Lonoke, Ark., was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 years of probation when he was arrested on sexual battery and kidnapping charges. The kidnapping charges later were dropped.

Court records say Coots crawled through a window to attack a woman.

Coots was released early from prison - in 1989. But within a few months he had left his residence without telling probation authorities.